Rank: Private First Class
Unit: F Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 2-Oct-1947
Hometown: Burlington, Vermont
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 14-Feb-1968
Start of tour: 20-Jul-1968
Incident date: 19-Aug-1968
Date of casualty: 19-Aug-1968
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Small Arms Fire. Gun or small arms fire.
Edward Austin McKenzie died from wound received while on combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight. Individual was admitted to 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh, and placed on the Very Serious Injury (VSI) list and later expired.
Five Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SSG Gale Edward Deering
SSG Aldon Cecil Jones
PFC Edward Austin McKenzie
SP4 Salvador Joe Mendez
SP4 William Leonard Sandersen
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Resurrection Park Cemetery, South Burlington, Vermont, USA
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